SAP Dashboards - Version

Earlier this Dashboard Designer was known as Xcelsius in SAP Business Objects 3.x version. It was also called Crystal Dashboard when Business Objects was not a product suite of SAP.

When Business Objects was acquired by SAP, the products were renamed as follows −

BOXI 3.1 compatible Dashboard is called Xcelsius 2008.

BOXI 4.0 compatible Dashboard is called Dashboard 4.0.

BOXI 4.1 compatible Dashboard is called Dashboard 4.1.

SAP Dashboards Vs Design Studio

SAP Dashboards Designer and Design Studio both are excellent tools for creating dashboards and support advanced features. The selection to choose one over other purely depends on the client requirements and system landscape.

Features

Dashboards Designer

Design Studio

Chart Types

There are 22 charts of 16 types

34 charts of 12 types

Selectors

18 Selectors of 16 types

10 Selectors of 10 Types

Containers

7 Containers of 3 Types

5 Container of 5 Types

Maps

For 100 Countries

No Maps

Calendar

Calendar is available as table

Calendar is available as input field

Filter Panel

No filter Panel

Drilling and Filtering Capabilities

What−If Component

6 components

No components

Visualization Engine

Adobe Flash with HTML5 support

Native HTML with CSS

Design and Color Schemes

Multiple themes, customize using GUI

Basic themes, customized using CSS

Sample Models

Sample models can be used to check how the different functions work in Dashboards and how you can use these functions in your own model. Each sample model includes own embedded spreadsheets data to check how different components are bound to data in spreadsheets.

You can check sample models in Dashboard by going to the File option at the top.